Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours."
Truthfulness quotes
Truthfulness
21 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Pablo Picasso
Painter, Sculptor
"The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
Seamus Heaney
Poet, Playwright
"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"The inability to lie is far from the love of truth."
Plato
Philosopher
"Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?"
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"Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness."
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"Understanding comes with compassion and compassion comes with truthfulness"
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"Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness."
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"They will only care when you're gone."
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"Perhaps no one as yet has been truthful enough about what "truthfulness" is."
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